Seven Resources for Designing with Accessibility

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) presented a number of resources for accessible course design at a recent accessibility workshop. The best of those resources are highlighted here, with information about how each can support designers and faculty in improving course accessibility.

General Accessibility Resources

An excellent resource containing numerous articles on various aspects of Web accessibility, types of disability to consider, how to implement alternative text, keyboard navigation, document design, and more. The site also provides links to accessibility tools and checkers.

This site contains techniques for making accessible documents in almost every office application software imaginable. Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, iWork, Google Docs, Adobe PDFs, and more are all included here. Each software’s page is divided into techniques and guidelines on how to create more accessible documents.